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Monday, 10 December 2018

VMware Worstation installation on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS - GNU C Compiler (gcc) version 7.4.0 was not found

VMware Workstation will help us to run multiple operating systems as virtual machines (VMs) on a single Linux or Windows PC, which we can leverage to build or test software as required.

Download VMware workstation Pro below:


For Linux:


For Windows:


Installing VMware Workstation pro on Ubuntu:


Once VMware workstation Download, You can make  downloaded file executable using below command:

sudo chmod +x VMware-Workstation-Full-15.1.0-13591040.x86_64.bundle


Now you can run installer as below:

sudo ./VMware-Workstation-Full-15.1.0-13591040.x86_64.bundle

Installer will prompt for few basic questions for your input, after passing those details installer will complete installation with Finish Message.

Error:GNU C Compiler (gcc) version 7.4.0 was not found

Post installation, when you are trying open workstation you will get this error and it will ask for GCC location to manually browse.

You can run below command to fix this:

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic
ow again you can open workstation, now it will prompt to install, once you click on install it will proceed and complete final dependent installation.

Hopefully, You enjoyed this post.

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